People: American Vanguard Corp (AVD.N)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Eric Wintemute

57 2011 Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer

David Johnson

55 2008 Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Treasurer

Timothy Donnelly

52 2010 Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel, Secretary

Cindy Baker Smith

49 2012 Senior Vice President & Director - Global Regulatory Affairs of AMVAC Chemical Corp

Glen Johnson

57 1999 Senior Vice President, Director - Business Development of AMVAC Chemical Corporation

James Lehman

53 2011 Vice President - Sales of AMVAC Chemical Corporation

John Rizzi

2013 Vice President, Director of Manufacturing of AMVAC Chemical Corporation

Jerome Coben

2012 Director

Lawrence Clark

53 2006 Independent Director

Debra Edwards

58 2011 Independent Director

Alfred Ingulli

70 2010 Independent Director

John Killmer

62 2008 Independent Director

Carl Soderlind

78 2000 Independent Director

M. Esmail Zirakparvar

62 2010 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Eric Wintemute

Mr. Eric G. Wintemute is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of American Vanguard Corp. He has served as a director since June 1994. Mr. Wintemute served as President and CEO from July 1994 until June 2011, and Chairman and CEO since June 2011. He was appointed Executive Vice President and COO of the Company in January 1994. Mr. Wintemute has been at the helm of the Company during its years of greatest growth. With 18 years experience on this Board, 33 years experience at the Company (18 years as CEO) and membership in crop protection trade groups (recently, as Chairman of CropLife America), Mr. Wintemute brings a broad industry perspective to the Board. His interaction with the heads of competitors, suppliers and customers; legislators; and enforcement authorities has enabled him to identify economic, technological and political trends affecting the Company.

David Johnson

Mr. David T. Johnson is Chief Financial Officer, Vice President, Treasurer of American Vanguard Corp., since March 7, 2008. Mr. Johnson served as Finance Director for Amcor Flexibles UK Ltd., a five hundred million dollar manufacturer of decorative packaging and a subsidiary of Amcor, a multibillion dollar corporation based in Australia, from June 2003 through March 2008. Prior to that he served as Vice President of Finance for Sterer Engineering, a subsidiary of Eaton Aerospace, an eight billion dollar Cleveland based multinational company from April 2001 through June 2003.

Timothy Donnelly

Mr. Timothy J. Donnelly is Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel, Secretary of American Vanguard Corp. He has served as Vice President and General Counsel of the Company since October 2005. He served as Assistant Secretary until June 2007, at which time he as appointed Secretary of the Company. In 2009, he was also made responsible Human Resources and Risk Management. In June 2010, he was appointed as CAO. Prior to his work with the Company, from September 2000 through October 2005, Mr. Donnelly served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for DDi Corp. (Nasdaq—DDIC) a manufacturer of quick-turn, high-technology printed circuit boards. Mr. Donnelly holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from John Carroll University and a Juris Doctor from Northwestern University Law School.

Cindy Baker Smith

Mrs. Cindy Baker Smith has been appointed as Senior Vice President & Director - Global Regulatory Affairs of AMVAC Chemical Corp., the subsidiary of American Vanguard Corp., effective September 13, 2012. Mrs. Baker Smith has spent the last 17 years at the Gowan Group of Companies, a privately-held manufacturer and distributor of specialty chemicals used in agriculture. Starting as a regulatory specialist with Gowan, she rose to positions of increasing responsibility in managing global regulatory affairs, marketing, supply chain administration, and human resources, culminating with the position of chief operating officer, where she was responsible for managing an organization of 200 employees. Mrs. Baker Smith has worked with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and many foreign agencies and currently serves as chairperson of the Strategic Oversight Council of CropLife America, a committee of which she has been a member for several years.

Glen Johnson

Mr. Glen D. Johnson is Senior Vice President and Director of Business Development of AMVAC Chemical Corp., is a wholly-owned subsidiary of American Vanguard Corp., since February 1999. Mr. Johnson was previously the North American Senior Marketing Manager for Contract Sales at Zeneca Ag Products. Prior to joining AMVAC Chemical Corporation, Mr. Johnson had over 20 years of experience in sales and marketing, acquisition and licensing, market development, and field research and development with three multinational agrochemical companies.

James Lehman

Mr. James Lehman is Vice President - Sales of AMVAC Chemical Corp, a subsidiary of American Vanguard Corp., since June 9, 2011. He joined the Company on January 26, 2009 as Midwest Regional Sales Manager. Prior to that time, Mr. Lehman was the Strategic Account Manager for BASF Corporation based in Carmel, Indiana from 2000 to 2009, where he had responsibility for key accounts on a national level.

John Rizzi

Mr. John Rizzi is appointed as the Vice President, Director of Manufacturing of AMVAC Chemical Corporation, subsidiary of American Vanguard Corporation. Mr. Rizzi’s 28-year engineering and manufacturing career includes assignments in the U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand in addition to his key role as Plant Manager of AMVAC’s facility in Axis, Alabama. He has undergraduate and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from McGill University in Montreal, Canada and a Certificate in Business Studies from Waikato University, New Zealand.

Jerome Coben

Mr. Jerome L. Coben has been appointed as Director of American Vanguard Corp., effective September 12, 2012. Mr. Coben practiced corporate law for almost 40 years, first in New York City and, for most of his career, in Los Angeles. In 1983, Mr. Coben co-founded the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. He practiced there until his retirement at the end of 2008, representing corporations, investment banks and special committees of boards of directors in a wide range of corporate finance and M&A matters. During his years at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP., Mr. Coben served as the Managing Partner of the Los Angeles office and on several of the firm’s national management committees. In 2009 and 2010, Mr. Coben was a Director of Zenith National Insurance Corp. (a provider of workers compensation insurance and currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited). He is also a member of the Board of a privately-owned fashion retailer. Throughout his career, Mr. Coben has been involved in a broad range of philanthropic and community activities. He is currently a Director of the John Wayne Cancer Institute at Saint John’s Hospital, a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles and Vice-Chair of the Board of the American Jewish University. He has also been a Lecturer of Law at the USC Gould School of Law.

Lawrence Clark

Mr. Lawrence S. Clark is Independent Director of American Vanguard Corp. Mr. Clark is the Chief Financial Officer (“CFO”) for Legendary Pictures, a motion picture production company that develops, co-produces and co-finances motion pictures in partnership with Warner Bros. and has served in that capacity since 2004. From 2003 – 2004 he provided financial and corporate development consulting services to media and entertainment clients. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Clark was the CFO of Creative Artists Agency, a entertainment talent, literary and marketing agency. From 1997 to 2000, he served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Development for Sony Pictures Entertainment. Mr. Clark was Director—International for The Carlyle Group, a private equity firm, from 1995 to 1997. In 1992, he co-founded Global Film Equity Corp., which provided strategic, business advisory and capital raising services to media companies. From 1989 to 1992, Mr. Clark was Vice President, Corporate Finance at Salomon Brothers, Inc. Prior to that, he was a Corporate Finance Associate at Goldman Sachs & Co. from 1987 to 1989.

Debra Edwards

Dr. Debra F. Edwards, Ph.D., is Independent Director of American Vanguard Corp. Dr. Edwards has more than 28 years of experience specializing in pesticide residue chemistry, human health risk assessment, human health and ecological risk management, registration, re-registration and regulatory policy development. From September 2010 to June 2011, she served as Senior Managing Scientist at Exponent’s Health Sciences Center for Chemical Regulation and Food Safety. In 2010 she retired from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“USEPA”), where she had spent the majority of her career scientific and regulatory organizations, culminating in her serving as Director of the Office of Pesticide Programs. Except for a two-year stint in Guatemala as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corp. (1997 – 1999), Dr. Edwards worked for the USEPA from 1985 until 2010. Dr. Edwards holds a Ph.D. and a Masters Degree in Plant Pathology and has been the recipient of numerous academic and professional honors, including the Presidential Rank Award for Meritorious Service as a Senior Executive, and has published and made presentations in national and international fora on pesticide regulation, food safety and integrated pest management. Given the number of active ingredients that the Company has registered for use across the globe and the rapidly changing and increasingly challenging regulatory climate, Dr. Edwards is be a asset for assisting the board in mapping out the strategy for product defense, regulatory compliance both domestically and internationally, and in the evaluation of product line acquisitions.

Alfred Ingulli

Mr. Alfred F. Ingulli is Independent Director of American Vanguard Corp. Mr. Ingulli served as Executive Vice President of Crompton Corporation (later Chemtura Corporation), a $3 billion specialty chemical company from 1989 through 2004, in which capacity he was responsible for the company’s global agricultural chemical business, a $300 million business with the highest operating profit margin in the industry. In 2004, he also served as a member of Crompton’s executive committee, which consisted of the Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”), CFO and one other executive vice president. Mr. Ingulli currently serves on the board of directors of PBI/Gordon, Inc., a marketer of specialty chemicals in turf and ornamental, lawn and garden and animal health markets and serves as a member of the compensation committee and audit committee of that board. Further, from 1996 – 2004, he served on the board of directors of Gustafson LLC, a manufacturer of seed treatment products and application equipment, and was chairman of that board from 2002 – 2004. From 1990 – 2004, Mr. Ingulli also served as a board member of CropLife America (where he served as Chairman of the Board from 2002 – 2004), which is a nationwide not-for-profit trade organization representing member companies that produce, sell, and distribute most of the active compounds used in crop protection products registered for use in the United States.

John Killmer

Dr. John L. Killmer Ph.D., is Independent Director of American Vanguard Corp., since December 5, 2008. Mr. Killmer was responsible for Global Marketing, Product and Supply Chain Management for Arysta LifeSciences Corporation (“Arysta”), a privately held crop protection and life science company, from November 2004 through June 2008. At Arysta, Mr. Killmer had global responsibility for marketing and product management and, in addition, was responsible for global supply chain management. From 1980 to November 2004 he served in various capacities with Monsanto Company (“Monsanto”) including three years as President of Monsanto, Greater China from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Killmer possesses a combination of considerable technical and business acumen. A trained scientist, Mr. Killmer began his professional career focusing on technology and ascended the corporate ladder with increasing profit responsibility. He served as pro-tem Director of Technology for the Company from March 2009 through December, 2010, during which time he has evaluated the Company’s technology infrastructure and added multiple resources (both people and equipment) to help enhance the Company’s domestic manufacturing and process and formulation technology.

Carl Soderlind

Mr. Carl R. Soderlind is Independent Director of American Vanguard Corp., since June 2000. Mr. Soderlind served as Chairman and CEO of Golden Bear Oil Specialties, a producer of niche specialty oil and chemical products used in a variety of industrial applications from 1997 to 2001. From 1961 to 1996 he served in various capacities of Witco Corporation, with his most recent position being Senior Executive Vice President and member of the Management Committee. Mr. Soderlind has experience in running businesses in both specialty oil and chemical products. Mr. Soderlind’s many years working in investor relations have given him an knowledge of the public markets and a keen awareness of investors’ expectations. During his professional career, Mr. Soderlind specialized in growing businesses through well-timed acquisitions of product lines and companies

M. Esmail Zirakparvar

Mr. M. Esmail Zirakparvar is Independent Director of American Vanguard Corp. Most recently, Mr. Zirakparvar served in executive positions at Bayer CropScience AG. From 2002 – 2004 he served as COO and member of the Bayer CropScience AG’s Board of Management in Germany and from 2004 – 2006 as Head of Region of Americas, President & CEO of Bayer CropScience LP—USA and Member of the Bayer CropScience AG Executive Committee. Prior to that, he served in various executive positions at Rhone-Poulenc Agrochemie and Aventis CropScience from 1986 – 2001, ultimately as Head of Portfolio Management and member of the Global Executive Committee in Lyon, France for these companies. In addition to his hands-on experience in product development, regulatory matters, project management, and management of agricultural chemical businesses, Mr. Zirakparvar has helped to oversee the integration, management and direction of one of the global agricultural chemical companies.

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